China's former top builder warned in a stock exchange filing on Tuesday that it will not be able to meet all of its future offshore payment obligations, including dollar bonds. Such non-payment may lead to relevant creditors demanding acceleration of payment or pursuing enforcement action, it added.
Country Garden's warning came after it managed to dodge its first public bond payment failure and succeeded in rescheduling local debt in increasingly recent months, shifting investors' focus from inevitable delinquencies toward a likely massive debt overhaul. With its peer China Evergrande Group facing rising risk of liquidation amid uncertainties about its own restructuring, the developer's deepening woes underscore the need for Beijing to adopt stronger measures to support a key growth engine as homes sales keep slumping.
Country Garden's latest statement "may pressure the offshore bondholders to approve any upcoming restructuring proposal," said Ting Meng, a senior credit strategist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group. "The company is clearly still in a liquidity crunch with many unfinished projects to complete and limited access to new financing."
In a reflection of how Country Garden's debt woes are affecting prospective buyers' confidence in the builder, the company said on Tuesday that September contracted sales plunged 81% from a year earlier.
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